John Dall

In June 2013, the Courant's Susan Dunne interviewed actress Polly Bergen ahead of a screening and Q&A of "Cape Fear" at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The actress died Saturday at her Southbury home. She was 84.

Polly Bergen grew up in Ohio and Indiana loving the musicals of Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin. In one of Durbin's films, she sang in her kitchen, was overheard by a producer and became a star.

"I would stand in my kitchen and sing my life out waiting for someone to show up, if not today, maybe tomorrow," Bergen said. "I was so naive and so unsophisticated."

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